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So my family's watching Andor.
I now have a deep desire for a show about a young woman who works in a laundromat who gets involved with the rebellion/revolution, but like. In a tangential way. Witnesses uprisings and protests and all that, sees the city get more dystopian and tense over time, but also, still works at the laundromat for basically the whole show, and the plot is more focused on the effects of the rebellion on the main cast than actually overthrowing anything.
Who's with me?
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Shoutouts to humanity for successfully crashing a satellite into an asteroid!
Y'know... just for the heck of it.
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Lmao ok I get it now
that being said first results for satellite on google are hurricane Ian looking like an absolute beast
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Shoutouts to humanity for successfully crashing a satellite into an asteroid!
Y'know... just for the heck of it.
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the queen dying is the funniest thing that's happened since the 2019 PSAT
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What was the 2019 psat?
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Results of the recent polling on the poisoned cup scenarios:
Poll 1 (which cup would you drink from?):
about 91% of people selected that they would drink from the cup in front of them. I was expecting it to be closer to 50% so this is very interesting. Out of 66 people, only 6 selected the cup in front of the other person.Poll 2 (which cup would you poison?):
I had far less people this time around, however, roughly 48% of people selected the option saying that they would poison the cup in front of the kidnapper and 52% would poison their own. That is, 15 out of 31 people selected that they would poison the cup in front of the kidnapper.
I am quite shocked by this and will eventually poll more people and develop it more.
The majority of people would end up dying when picking the poison for the majority of people who drink.anyway, thank you for participating in the surveys!
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Fadran I don’t think that’s the point of poison
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Wooooo 110 notifs and all but one of the ones that show up in the pop-up box were status updates
Any important stuff that I need to know about?
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Oh sorry two of those were mine. One was about my cat, the other was ‘hey I’m here again’.
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Drop ap calc and get over here you’re not even planning on a math major
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I got access to DALL-E! The first thing I searched for was "Brandon Sanderson riding a parrot" and I got this
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ohhhhh my brother has accses to this imma ask him for "evil, affable sword"
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episode 2 of Rings of Power is also banger
i'm loving each of these plotlines
spoilers:
Spoilerone thing that I think this show is doing really well is taking very very classic tropes and twisting them
for example, we have the classic "yearning" type plotline
your classic "farmboy" type, right
"what if there's more beyond our little slice of civilazation" etc etc etc
so naturally the next step is a Call to Actionand lemme tell you, having a meteor crash, only to find a naked man inside, is one HECK of a call
it's not even really twisting the format exactly
it's just doing it in a very original way
and i love italso i have no idea who that guy is
i feel like they're setting it up for a reveal
so we must know who he is already
i'm probably just not well versed enough in tolkien lore to figure it outmy first guess was tom bombadil, simply because he's fitting the "very weird old man" vibes
but iirc, tom was all about nature n stuff, so that whole "killing fireflies" thing wouldn't be his vibe really
also i think i remember him being like
some sort of higher eternal being
like he has always existed and always will
so the suddenly appearing from a meteor and not remembering anything doesn't seem to fit eithermy next guess would be...some sort of wizard?
falling from the sky in a meteor does seem like the way a wizard would be born
i know that there's supposed to only be 5 wizards or something
and they're like maiar or whatever
maybe this is showing one of them being created by the tolkien god or smthnhe's just credited as "the stranger" so that doesn't help much
yeah idk
i feel like this is definitely something that could be figured out rn
i just don't have the knowledge of tolkien lore to do itaaaaaaaaanyway this was supposed to be a review, not theorizing and speculation
uh yeah
i thought it was great
i am enjoying all 4 of the plotlines at about equal levels at the moment. they each have enough mystery or action that i don't really prefer one over another.i am loving the lost at sea bit though
i love sea monsters
like, look at all the crazy megafauna tolkien has on land. dragons, ents, trolls, etc etc
imagine what crazy things would be in the ocean depths.
imagine if it was analagous to our own world, where we have pretty normal looking surface creatures and absolute nightmare fuel down in the depths.
Tolkien already has crazy nightmare fuel on the surface.
i want to know what's down there.that plotline is another good example of them taking classic tropes and being very original with it. Galadriel is building a party. And the first member was met, not in a tavern, but by accidentally stumbling into each other in the middle of the ocean
very original, and very enjoyable
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do i need to watch real lotr first or no? im sorta sceptical of amazon anyways and i feel like i need to watch the movies even if i havent read the books
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I have 201 notifs.
Also they/them pronouns pls lol
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I uh.... don’t know?
hi.
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Friar, no I forgot my password lol.
and yeah, hi guys!
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You know that moment where you look at your IRL friends and are like, 'why am I friends with these people'?
And then you remember the Shard, and how you've never thought that.
And then you remember the good things about those IRL people.
And then you don't know what to think.
Well
I'm glad I have both.
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Well you see, I switched schools right before the pandemic (like, in summer break I moved) so I know literally no one in my school. Basically, I dont have a social life outside of the shard. So no, haven’t thought that because I dont have friends IRL.
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Going to take a break day today. I'm not going to stop replying, but I'm going to try to not feel obligated to check the Shard every five minutes so I can actually go play some of those games I payed good money for. For now, though, I'm going to go watch the new Mandalorian episode.
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I’m going to disappear for a little while
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If you take off the plastic cover part, there's a map of Roshar.
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I just took a PSAT and my brain stopped working halfway through because I started craving an omelet.
The other half I was craving to get back to reading SA.
I still want an omelet... Like, really badly.
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Can anyone give me a good omelet recipe?
You made me really hungry.
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I will pay handsomely for drawings of the Iconar Collective characters.-
Ok! Yay! I like drawing! (Please note that this is note a promise because school... but I wanna do this.)
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Thanks guys
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I finished dawnshard!! Eeeeeeee
Oh my gosh
Ok wow its so good
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I hope we get a Rysn pov.
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I finished dawnshard!! Eeeeeeee
Oh my gosh
Ok wow its so good
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Its just... so good. I want more.
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My 8-year-old brother just dug this up from our flower bed:
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Daaaaang! Wow! Imagine if it is a dinosaur!
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So. I think I'm ready to start easing back into RP's. Which one should I rejoin first?
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Alleyverse! Maybe?
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It's my Shardiversary! Hard to believe it's been one year. Wow.
Granted, it's late, so I'd better be brief (let's see how brief I actually am).
@Serce Forts, you are so amazing. You're an amazing friend, and I'm so glad I get to know you. Thanks for getting me on here, and thank you for all you have done for me.
@Condensation and @Vapor, amazing siblings, thank you for joining me on here!
FotT, my first real RP. 'tis sweet. I love the story, and I love all you guys. Thank you for teaching me how to actually RP. You are all amazing.
Sanderson Elimination, a section I discovered during quarantine, is amazing. Thank you for the sense of community you have allowed me to find. I'm always surprised when I hear how many games I've played (10? How?) and I'm sorry if I'm kind of inactive.
@revelryintheart, your art is amazing! Thank you for being there when I was busy, and it was great to meet you!
@Shard of Thought, I can say the same for you. Thank you for being ready to take over when I needed it. I love hearing about your stories and your characters, and your art is phenomenal. I love it even more with context, and it's amazing without.
@Matrim's Dice, thank you for being there as well. It was reassuring to know that the three of you were there in case anything happened. SE with you is great too, and I love your character concepts!
@Nathrangking and @Scarletfox, I've loved reading your RP and have learned so much from it!
@AonEne, thank you. Just thank you. I have no clue how you find time for all that you do, moderation and listening. Thank you for your constant offers to listen in PMs. Thank you for listening to my concerns and sharing them that time. Having someone to talk to really helped.
@The_Truthwatcher, I've loved chatting with you. You're awesome.
@Channelknight Fadran drat too many mentions it won't let me do more. I love your story and look forward to catching up *cough cough my bad*.
@Emi and @Spren of Kindness, you are both so sweet and I love seeing you here.
All of you are awesome, even if I missed mentioning you.
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Happy mildly late shardiversary! Eek spelling. But still, I hope you have a great day and stuff.
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